Business Week recently featured an article on the economics of racing cars. It highlighted Julia Landauer, referred to as the best female racer since Danica Patrick. Do you know that Shirley Muldowney and Janet Guthrie actually paved the way for Danica Patrick and Julia Landauer?
It’s Emmy season! Although most of us think of Emmys as recognizing acting on television, there are multiple other categories of Emmy awards. In this enewsletter, we profile two of the many amazing women who have received Emmys in recognition of their significant prowess as entertainers: Rita Moreno and Leontyne Price.
On March 7, 2013, the National Women’s Hall of Fame (www.greatwomen.org) announced its 2013 inductees. Five of the women to be inducted October 12, 2013 are profiled in our book Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America. For our April enewsletter, we profile two of these women – racing jockey Julie Krone and feminist writer Kate Millett.
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For the theme of family this November, we wanted to draw your attention to women who have helped dress women 
when they were in a “family way.” Did you know that before the early 1900s, ‘proper’ women could not be seen in public when they were pregnant? We are talking here about middle class and upper class women, whose clothing was made for them by private seamstresses or family servants. Not surprisingly, there were no commercially available maternity clothes. Working class women, who did work throughout their pregnancy, ‘made do’ with larger size clothing or men’s overshirts topping their regular skirts and tops.
Early in the twentieth century, Lena Bryant set out to change that situation. Later, Rebecca Mathais would ensure that pregnant professional women had suitable business attire to wear to work. We know you will enjoy reading about their stories.
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